Jan 07, 2012 12:26
[There is a pause before the girl that was in a dozen pieces begins to speak. Her voice is quiet, free of the normal conviction and bravado that she would normally have in such a situation.]
Tell me where I'm needed.
[She has no right to call the shots when this is half her fault.]
not as strong as she appears,
it was just getting normal again,
trying to do the right thing,
fucking demons and shit,
that is a lot of blood,
guilt is her middle name,
burning the bodies,
break my little heart in two,
doing my civic duty,
the animus aren't cool,
death is but the next adventure,
boys? a little help here?,
three inches from the edge,
apologies aren't always spoken,
!event: ekpyrosis/walpurgis,
let the bodies hit the floor,
blunt post is blunt,
only mildly panicked here,
soldier of fire and justice
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[As evenly as she can.]
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[Quietly, with an edge to it.
She'll accept and hold her responsibility for what's happening and she'll allow the city to do what it wants with her after this is done -- but she can't sit back and do nothing.]
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Where are you?
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How are you alive?
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[No, she's not, but it'll do.]
Who's coming to get you?
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Her tone is quiet and mechanic.]
I'm one of the only people in this city that can control fire.
Staying underground is pointless.
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I wasn't --
[She stops herself.]
... I wasn't -- alive, when she --
I died before that.
[Aelia only cut her in half. But she's not going to tell him that. 8|]
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[Quietly.]
-- I'm sorry, Bartimaeus, I wasn't fast enough.
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[Almost pleadingly.]
I put his body somewhere safe.
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[There's noise in the background- horrific screeching and the sound of things, bodies perhaps, exploding.]
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[With the slightest breath of what might be a smile.]
What else was summoned into the city?
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Ah, just a few things I guess. [SCREECH. SMASH.]
Like this.
[He flips the camera on to show a gray, dirty, cross-filled scenery unlike anything seen in Ads. A strange looking creature moves in jerky motions, the corpses of others like it stabbed with the crosses they carry around it..]
It's a small thing, I think.
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Aelia -- did she summon them?
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